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Surface-based Temperature Records
THE warmaholics are fond of using the phrase “official records going back to 1850″, but the simple facts are that prior to the 1970s, surface-based temperatures from a few indiscriminate, mostly backyard locations in Europe and the US are fatally corrupted and not in any sense a real record.  Read more here. (0)

Crazy Claims from Climate Scientist
This is absured, but true: Australia’s use of coal and carbon emissions policies are guaranteeing the “destruction of much of the life on the planet”, a leading NASA scientist has written in a letter to Barack Obama.  Read more here. (4)

Learning by Candlelight
As I waited night after night for the electricity to return, candlelight kept teaching me about moving air’s talent for removing heat, hampering any effort to keep warmth “down here” by constantly sending it up and away.   Read more here. (0)

People Powered Gym
A US gym has installed specially-adapted exercise bikes that recycle energy generated by people as they work out.   Read more here. (0)

Flying on Vegetable Oil
A passenger plane has successfully completed a two-hour test flight partly powered by vegetable oil.  Read more here. (2)

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Environmentalism Needs to be Tolerant of Scepticism: Freeman Dyson

“THERE is a worldwide secular religion which we may call environmentalism, holding that we are stewards of the earth, that despoiling the planet with waste products of our luxurious living is a sin, and that the path of righteousness is to live as frugally as possible. The ethics of environmentalism are being taught to children [...]

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Happy in the New Year

It’s that time of year when there is much wishing one another a “Happy New Year”. 
But how does one become “happy”?
According to the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus the path to happiness requires just three things: friends, freedom and thought (an analysed life).*  
Epicurus is also associated with the early development of the scientific method insisting that nothing should [...]

Give me the Liberty …

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.  John Milton [via Benny Peiser]

New Trails and Academia

“Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies.  The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating.  To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness.” S. Warren Carey (Australian geologist) via Fred Singer.

A Consensus Means …

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually. Abba Eban via Joe D’Aleo

Improving Prophecy

Since the dawn of thought, people have been using various methods to foretell the future.   Forecasting is now big business and many large businesses have been made smaller through incorrect forecasts.
In Australia we have suffered long enough from bad forecasts.  It is time to do something to improve forecasting standards. 

Heresy Versus Science

In science, refuting an accepted belief is celebrated as an advance in knowledge; in religion it is condemned as heresy.  via Fred Singer.

Censoring and the Internet

Before this year’s Beijing Olympic Games, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd chastised the Chinese authorities for blocking full access to the internet for the assembled world media: “My attitude to our friends in China is very simple”, he said. “They should have nothing to fear by open digital links with the rest of the world during [...]

Michael Crichton on Consensus Science

“There is no such thing as consensus science.  If it’s consensus, it isn’t science.  If it’s science, it isn’t consensus.  Period.”  Michael Crichton (1942-2008)

Richard Lindzen on the Politicization of Science

Hi Jen, Have you read Richard Lindzen’s article about the politicization of science. Did you know Realclimate.org is an astroturf set up by a left-wing PR firm? Al Gore sued Fred Singer to remove a co-author. Numerous heads of climate science organizations are not really climate scientists at all.
It’s all there and much more…
Go here and download [...]